St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-17
AN IMPORTANT MEETING
Of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union
IN SESSION AT NASHVILLE
Miss willard Delivers an Address Char
acterized by Her Usual Eloquence
and Earnestness.

NASH LILLE, lelu., NOV. 10 HC
National w. C. T. U. met in Watkins
hall at 9 O'Clock, with representatives
from almost every state and territory
For the first time Indian Territory has
sent its president. Upon the platform
were seated Mrs. Judge Thompson, of
Hillsboro, o., mother of the crusade in
1888; Pundita Ramabai, vice president
of the worlds w. c. T. U. for India,
and the officers of the National union.
The hall was decorated with beau
tiful banners and flowers. Mrs.
Hannah Whithall Smith, lately returned
from England, opened the convention
with Bible reading on Love. At its
close Miss Willard gave the motto for
the days to come, There is nothing in
exhOrable but love-" Before the crown
ing event of the convention. Miss Will
ards annual address, the entire front of
the platform was lined with representa-
tiyeS of the press. Perfect quietGesS
prevailed while Miss Willard gave Sc
Iections from her annual address. Mrs.
Lide Meriwether, president of TenneS-
see, presided. The address was fire.
quently interrupted with applause.
IN LOVING KINDNESS AND SYMPATHY.
in breadth of vision and depth of re-
solve, her message to the white ribbon
women cannot be eXcelled. Among
other things, she said: Forty states and
territories have sent 400 representatives
to the metropolis of Southern education.
The Northern home keepers have
crossed Mason and Dixon's line to clasp
hands with their sisters. No surer
token that we are one nation has been
given since 1864. SiXty-fOur different
suggestions of work are tabulated under
the heads of prevention, educational,
evangelistic, social and legal work.
The fact that no state union is bound
by the action of the national
society was emphasized. There are
not enough anti-SalOOn Republic
cans at the North to carry prohibition
IN single state that is now struggling
to secure it, nor enough anti-SalOon
Democrats at the South, as has been
proved in this memorable year of our
constitutional defeats, but there are
enough temperance men in both to take
possession of the government and give
us national prohibition in the party of
the near future, which is to be the party
of God. Women should use their ut
most influence, and whenever they have
the school ballot they should use that
to engraft the kindergarten upon the
public school. Where this cannot be
but, above all, let every mother study
the system and employ it
in her own home. Miss Louise
L.. Smith, of Rhode Island, one
of our evangelIstic veterans, has pro-
posed that we district the nation, giving
to each subdivision leader of its own.
l hope her plan may be carefully con-
sidered. But my heart turns with ten
der love and blessing toward the church
of Christ, and prays for the time when
her own hallOwed ministry shall be SO
pervasiYe that outside societies shall no
longer prevail, when our legal work
shall broaden into Christian citizenship,
our educational works into public kin
dergartenS and industrial schools, where
hygiene shall be the study earliest and
longest taught, when the church shall
welcome us to all her cOunSelS, lay upon
our heads her cOnSecrating hands, and
claim for her own the voice that speaks
for Christ. We must work out the man
ifest destiny of the municipal ballot
fro women as means of enforcing
prohibitOry law, and emphasize
more strongly than before the national
amendment which shall remove all legal
disabilities from the daughters of the
republic. [ believe also that the pro-
hibitory party should strongly state as
its ultimate aim two amendments to the
national constitution: The first calling
for universal prohibition; the second,
ENFRANCHISING THE WOMEN;
and that it should carefully study the
platforms of the labor refOrmerS, both
Knights of Labor and Changers, that it
may incorporate the principles of arbi-
tratiOn and cooperation into its own
with another that seems to be based
upon Christian ethics and Christian
brotherhood. Among these is most
aSsuredly involved wages as we'll
as equal moral standards for
women and men; heavier penalties
for crimes against women, and the rails
ing of the age of protection to eighteen
years. The WOman'S Temperance Pub
LEGATION association last year published
$4,000, 900 pages, this year over 50,000,-
600. Our publishing corps includes
seventy-fye names, five of which are
editorial. The total issues of the Union
Signal for the year were 1854, 900
copies, or an average of 81, 423 copies
per week. Our four periodicals have
combined circulation of over $4,000
copies, and we have printed over So
100000 pages of temperance literature
during the year. A woman'S lecture
bureau is now being established in
charge of the national president and
corresponding secretary at 161 La Sale
street. Chicago, with good prospects
of great usefulness. l would once
more urge upon my comrades
the necessity for more thoroughly Or
ganiZing our press department head
quarters so that our Associated Press
kilograms, bulletins, paragraphs, etc,
shall cover the whole country and be
regularly issued. The largest of our
enterprises, the worlds w. G. T. u,
continues to hold on its way rejoicing.
Mrs. Leavitt does not think of coming
home as yet. She will thoroughly eX-
plore India, planting our little stations
at all eligible points; will go thence to
Madagascar, Africa, Asia Minor and l
know not where besides. We must de-
wise liberal things for this work. We
must at this convention arrange def
mite financial basis, as our British sis
tiers have done, SO that our National
Woman'S Christian Temperance union
may be related to the Worlds Woman's
Christian Temperance union, as our state
auXiliarieS are to uS-by the golden
link, which alone can attach us to the
putting engine that has started on it's
regular world-around trips. The WO--
mans Christian Temperance union of
Ohio h already arranged for new de-
partment in the interest of peace. This
is strictly germane to temperance work,
for nothing increases intemperance like
war, and nothing tends toward war like
intemperanee. We ought to rejoice in
the development of
ATHLETIC SPORTS FOR WOMEN
as well as men, since whatever cOnduceS
to the natural tonic and stimulus of out
door life leads away from all narcotic
drugs. The future of the National
Temperance hospital located in Chicago
is assured. As temperance people we
must no longer leave our inter-
ests undefended in Washington. L
suggest that this convention
invite the Sons of Temperance, Good
TemplarS and Prohibition party to COM
hirn with in the effort to annana q